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Charles Ramsey, the man who rescued Amanda Berry, has emerged as an unlikely hero and Internet sensation after his TV interview went viral.

His heroics could put Ramsey in line for a $25,000 FBI reward posted years ago for information regarding Berry's disappearance. (If you agree, help spread the word on Twitter by using the hashtag #RamseyReward.)

Ramsey said he was eating a Big Mac when he heard the young woman's fateful screams.

"I went to McDonald's. Came home. I'm eating my McDonald's. I hear this screaming," Ramsey, who's being hailed as a hero, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

"This girl is kicking the door and screaming. So I go over there, with my by Big Mac, and I said, 'Can I help?'"

Ramsey, thinking it was a domestic violence dispute, kicked in the door.

"And she said, 'I've been kidnapped. I've been in this house a long time, and I wanna go. Now.' Alright."

Berry told Ramsey her name, but it didn't click at first.

"I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man's arms," he told an ABC reporter. "Either she homeless or she got problems."

He told the Cleveland Plain Dealer Amanda emerged with a little girl.

"She said this is his daughter. It didn't dawn on me who 'his' was. I didn't know she was talking about him, my neighbour. I thought she meant another dude."

In the home, police found Gina DeJesus, 23, who vanished in 2004 at 14, and Michelle Knight, who went missing in 2002 at age 18 or 19.

Amanda went missing 10 years ago when she was 16.

Of his neighbour, Ramsey told TV reporters: "You got some big testicles to pull this off, bro, 'cause we see this dude every day. I mean every day. I barbecued with this dude. We eat ribs and whatnot and listen to salsa music."